of Amsterdam, to grace his new Academe with a man of that
fame for a few years. And there being comfortably stayed,
the most learned of the then Parliament heer, jealous that others
should enjoy a countryman of their own, they never left offers
and promises till they got him hither to be—they gave out—
Professor Honorarius heer. But the successe prov'd soon
deficient, and reduced him to much inconvenience, as having
now a charge of a pretty large Family, viz. his wife with 4 or
5 children. And this continued till in 1654 Oliver, Lord
Protector, sent him Envove to the Protestant Cantons of Switzer-
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land ; resided chieflv at Zurich.   He was sent out with the Title
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of Ablegatus, but afterwards he had order to continue there
with the Title of Resident.
In 1658 he returned into England and so little before the
death of Oliver Cromwell that he never sawe him since he was
Protector.
Memorandum that in his Negotiation he did no disservice
to King Charles IId, nor to the church, as may appeare by his
letters which are in the Secretaries Office.
Richard Cromwell, Protector, did not fully pay him for his
business in Piedmont, wherby he was in some want; and so
when King Charles II had been at home ten months, Dr. Sander-
son, Bishop of Lincoln, perswaded him to take Holy Orders.
Gilbert Sheldon, Lord Bishop of Lundon, gave Dr. Pell
the scurvy Parsonage of Lanedon cum Basseldon in the infamous
and unhealthy (aguesh) Hundreds of Essex (they call it Kill-
priest sarcastically) and King Charles the Second gave him the
Parsonage of Fobing, 4 miles distant.
At Fobbing, seven curates dyed within the first ten yeares ;
in sixteen yeares, six of those that had been his Curates at
Laindon are dead; besides those that went away from both
places ; and the death of his Wife, servants, and grandchildren-
Gilbert Sheldon being made Archbishop of Canterbury,
John Pell was made one of his Cambridge Chapkines (He ha&
2 Oxford Chaplaines and 2 Cambridge) and complaining one
day to his Grace at Lambith of the uahedthiaesse of his Beaefice
as abovesayd, sayd my Lord, I doe not iatead that you shall
live there. No, sayd Pell, but your Grace does intead that I
shall die there.
Lord Brereton was seat to Breda to reckve the Imttucrion
of this worthy Person, by his gtaixtfatfacr (George Goring,
the Earle of Norwich) anao 1647, where he became a good
proficient, especially ia Algebra to which his Genius most
iadiaed him aad which he used to his dyeing day, which was
17 March, 1680: lies boried in St. Martin's church in the Fields.